Liz Glynn, Battering Ram from the Punic War (Wrecked and Recovered, Egadi Islands) (2013)

Both sides of this vase depict an episode from the story of Medea, the daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis (in modern-day Georgia). When the Greek hero Jason came with the Argonaut...

Obv.: Herakles standing r., with club in r. hand, dotted border, below Punic letters B P. Rev.: Crab, dotted border, below Punic letters BŠBY....

A young Raja Ram Singh (b. 1861-1899) is depicted at the center of the image. He wears a red and gold turban with a large plume and an elaborate turban ornament (sarpech) that is s...

This painting depicts blue-skinned Hindu god Krishna’s subjugation of the serpent king Kaliya in the waters of River Yamuna. Kaliya wreaked havoc on the town of Vrindavan, poisonin...